"My main and constant feeling is that of life.

It is quite difficult to express it in words.

Maybe the closest to that feeling is the word wonder,

the perception of each moment,

each situation as a gift (rather than obvious, evident).

Everything is always new, everything is not simply life,

but encounter with life, and thus a revelation."

~Alexander Schmemann

from The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann

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wherelings whenlings,

(daughters of ifbut offsprings of hopefear

sons of unless and children of almost)

never shall guess the dimension of

him whose

each

foot likes the

here of this earth

whose both

eyes

love

this now of the sky.

~e.e. cummings